Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University
Tracy C. Davis's has published Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (1991); George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre (1994); Playwriting and Nineteenth-Century British Women (1999); Her books and edited collections include Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (1991); George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre (1994); Playwriting and Nineteenth-Century British Women (1999); The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (2000); Theatricality (2003); The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History (2007); The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance (2011); "Uncle Tom's Cabins: the Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (2018); and The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography (forthcoming). She is General Editor of the six-volume study A Cultural History of Theatre; editor of the monograph series Cambridge Studies in Theatre and Performance Theory (Cambridge UP); and co-editor of the monograph series Transnational Theatre Histories (Palgrave).